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After years in the Harry Potter fandom, I’m firmly in the anti-Dumbledore camp. And rewatching The Half-Blood Prince, there’s a single line where Dumbledore truly reveals his real self. Before he and Harry set off to get the locket, he tells Harry that Harry must swear to follow all of his orders. He doesn’t tell Harry anything else. He doesn’t explain anything. He just demands Harry’s unquestioning obedience, and Harry, the trusting idiot that he is, complies until the very end.

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There’s something a little extra messed up about Aunt Marge in Harry Potter.

Like the Dursleys make it no secret about their dislike for Harry, possibly due to his nature as a horcrux, but Marge takes it to a different level. She’s not exposed to the horcrux regularly, so she doesn’t have that excuse, yet she’s extra nasty to Harry. Maybe it’s what Vernon tells her. Maybe she has her own opinions because Harry was just left on her brother’s doorstep.

But what gets me is that no matter how much Petunia openly disparaged Lily, that didn’t mean Marge had the right to speak of Lily in the same way and blame Lily for any of Harry’s perceived faults. She didn’t know Lily or James, and has her own stereotypes she won’t budge on (equating James Potter’s unemployed state with being a drunk like it was nothing)

“It’s all about blood, bad blood,” she says, “it has everything to do with the [mother].” That’s Lily Evans’s blood, and also Petunia née Evans’s blood. And while Petunia doesn’t let her expression show it, you can see in the movie that she’s clenching her fist when Marge says Harry’s faults are because of Petunia’s only sister, one that she both hated and loved.

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I just watched Turning Red for the first time today. I also came across an article talking about how a lot of parents were uncomfortable, horrified, and outraged by Disney’s and Pixar’s decision to blatantly discuss menstruation and female puberty specifically. They didn’t want to talk about those topics with young children (one parent mentioned their child was 7) and that it was sexualizing children. I would like to discuss why these parents need to calm down.

First off, to every adult saying Mei (and any other female character in Turning Red) was sexualized because of the blatant and subtle references to puberty and menstruation needs to open their eyes. The “blooming red peony” is literally the most natural thing a female body does. We bleed, every 4 or so weeks, and it is something we live with. It’s adults who make it weird, and apparently sexual when it’s literally our bodies saying “hey, no baby this month!”

For the parents of young daughters, as young as 7 or so, this movie probably did speed up the timetable of discussing puberty and menstruating. But girls as young as 7-8 can get periods. While our biological clocks tend to follow familial patterns, our environments change how early or late we start. I doubt you want to be like Ming and have to tell your daughters AFTER the fact, like she had to with Mei about the pandas. Imagine how better prepared your girls will be. How much less terrifying this change will be if it happens before you think they’re old enough. Or how they may be able to be a Miriam for their friends in their times of need (saving the day with pads or tampons and pain killers - there are I’ll prepared women everywhere and I’m one of them 50% of the time).

Now, much more importantly, imagine all the little girls who are watching this movie. Maybe they have warrior moms like Ming who will destroy the city for their daughters. Maybe they have moms who work 3 jobs to put food on the table and are either never home or too tired. Maybe they don’t have moms or a female role model they can talk to. Or maybe they’re like my mom, who handed me a book was I was 12 on the changes that would happen in my body once I hit puberty. This movie dedicated time to menstruation. To fucking sanitary pads. Hell, I’m a grown woman and I didn’t know all the types Ming brought out for her daughter (which Ming is not a role model mom but she loves Mei, she had good intentions without realizing the harm). I had to figure out using heat for cramps, and I got blessed that I didn’t need ibuprofen for it. I had to chase after my own health when I realized my menstruation wasn’t normal. Not everyone is so lucky to have an adult willing to discuss these things (I got lucky that both my parents cared when I said something was wrong, though Dad didn’t understand) or able to discuss it or to at least find a book because they don’t know how (which was more than my mom had). Not everyone is lucky enough to have an adult who will get outraged at a major company like Disney on their behalf (misguided or not).

So let it be. Let little girls see it and ask questions. Let 13 year olds see it and know that it’s ok to be Mei or Miriam or Abby or Priya or Tyler and geek out over their crushes and boy bands and draw/write embarrassing things (we all have a few skeletons. Parents, you don’t have to tell your kids but don’t lie to yourselves).

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The Princess Diaries (2001) dir. Garry Marshall

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May not be as cute at pikachu but still as hugable

I CAN’T THIS IS SO GOOD

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“That’ll be 1 million 1 hun—HUH?!?!?!”

That girl went from Total WTF to Just Another Day faster than a Ferrari

the chocolates your total comes to onemilliononehundred HuUuh

yeaAah thats whatit saAays, that mustbe REALLYgood chocolate paperorplastic

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Rewatching Prisoner of Azkaban, I noticed something. By no means am I a Snape Apologist. He protected Harry in his own weird and twisted way, both as a debt to James and out of love for Lily (or obsession, whichever you think fits Snape best), but he was a bully. He tormented years of students at Hogwarts out of his own insecurities. He played blatant favorites with his House and punished others, in particular Gryffindors like Neville (maybe because if Voldemort had chosen the Longbottoms Lily would be alive) and Harry (maybe because he was James’s son and a reminder of what could have been if he had been a better person and friend to Lily). But Snape did care. He came out of the Whomping Willow’s tunnel ready to punish and lash out at Harry (justifiably, I would be pissed too if I was attacked by a student when I thought I was helping him and then abandoned in a rundown shack), but the moment he noticed Lupin had turned into a werewolf, he didn’t hesitate to protect the Golden Trio. He did that twice, shielding them with his own body. Snape was a horrible adult role model, but he wasn’t about to let someone or something else hurt them if he could protect them. That would explain why in Order of the Phoenix, he says in front of the students that he used the last of his verita serum on Cho, when he didn’t need to specify it was used on her. He didn’t want her to be targeted and isolated out of a misunderstanding, possibly like he was years ago. In Half-Blood Prince, he didn’t truly hesitate to protect Draco on multiple occasions. In Deathly Hallows, he did his best to protect the students in ways that wouldn’t catch Voldemort and the Death Eaters attention. So, not as justification, it’s possible, having been raised the way he was and the experiences he had, Snape had no way how to properly express himself and how he cared about his students. Who knows, but for all his faults, he has some redeeming qualities hidden away.

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Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.

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Watching Lindsay Lohan’s Parent Trap, there are a number of things that I don’t think will ever make sense to me, starting off with Annie and Haley’s parents decision to divorce (which is fine because hey the marriage just didn’t work out, shit happens) and separate their twin daughters so permanently they had no idea they were twins. Like WTF? Who does that? And not only that, the girls, when they find out, aren’t incredibly furious with their parents? They just decide to switch places to know the parent they don’t live with? I would have made the camp call both parents and force them to show up to the camp and demand answers.

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I could use some 💪 luck

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TUMBLR WHY ARE YOU SLEEPING ON THIS ABSOLUTELY BONKERS MATCH.COM COMMERCIAL FEATURING A LOVE STORY BEWTEEN SATAN AND THE PERSONIFICATION OF THE YEAR 2020????

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animation of charmander makin some pancakes

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SO I was curious and looking around in the area that the Bond Fire was potentially spreading to and I found possibly THE BEST STREET NAMES EVER I just CAN’T–